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TheBetterHalf: Maansi Sanghi – Balancing work, life, and love

Startup spouses share their journeys and perspectives on the challenges and rewards of the startup hustle. In conversation with Shoba Girish.

Sadhana Balaji
Blog Finance

Demystifying the evaluation process

As an investor, what do we look for and how do we evaluate new SaaS opportunities? The Indian SaaS industry has seen tremendous growth over the past decade and is uniquely positioned to take advantage of the multi-billion-dollar global opportunity leveraging its wide base of skilled engineering talent and capital efficiency in product development and […]

Aditya Gurunath Systla & Maneesh Menon
Blog Build

The 3 mistakes of my startup, with Srikrishnan Ganesan of Rocketlane

This is the first of a series of interviews we are doing for SaaSBoomi.  The premise is simple: We ask some of our most successful entrepreneurs the three mistakes they made when starting up—the ones they would like to revisit and perhaps change. The intent is to learn from the mistakes our successful entrepreneurs have […]

Sairam Krishnan
Blog Product

The making of the product-tech backbone of a SaaS start-up

From guarding the mindspace of developers against the harsh realities of a cash-strapped world to giving brilliant jerks a polite go-by, the dos and don’ts for a surging start-up are one too many. At SaaSBoomi Build, builders of great products and developers of sparkling tech had much to say. In the hustle-filled early days of SaaS […]

Bharani Vaitheesvaran
Blog Build

What every startup founder needs to learn from Star Trek

A stoic, calm, logical, level-headed character, seldom shaken by emotions… working with a charismatic, headstrong, passionate, emotional character wildly popular among his folk… It doesn’t require genius to guess that I’m describing the iconic duo Spock and Captain Kirk. For the uninitiated, these two are protagonists of Star Trek, one of the most culturally-influential media […]

Arvind Parthiban
Blog Finance

Fundraising for SaaS: The essentials

“SaaS has strong recurring revenue. SaaS has strong margins. Then why does SaaS need external money to grow?” My dad asked me this when I was doing my first fundraise. While I know the answer I still have not been able to convince him (baap hai mera!). Fundraising is a part of any fast-growth SaaS […]

Rohit Chennamaneni
Blog Diversity

TheBetterHalf: Shoba Girish — From dreams to reality

Startup spouses share their journeys and perspectives on the challenges and rewards of the startup hustle. In conversation with Shoba Girish.

Sadhana Balaji
Blog Product

Serial entrepreneur Ankur Joshi on building a bootstrapped, sustainable and global SaaS startup

Ankur Joshi had a treasure chest of entrepreneurial experience to dip into when he decided to start up again in 2018. He had run three ventures, notably a QSR chain RushHrs, and a B2B e-commerce marketplace Blaez, and had held a senior role at Tapzo. But when he launched Nuclei, which has gone on to […]

Aghosh Babu
Blog Chapters - Chennai

Story of Kovai.co: Building a billion-dollar bootstrapped startup

We all know the importance of solving customer pain points for product success but doing so in a B2B product is even more crucial. However, the devil lies in the detail.  Anybody can solve high-level problems but it’s those who target the nuances of the problem who succeed. And Saravana Kumar, Founder & CEO, Kovai.co, […]

Shweta Mishra
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